For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it laid the foundation for spirituals and gospel songs.

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe continues its “Soul of a People” theatre season with “How I Got Over: A Gospel Revue.” The ...

The Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall had a line out the door Friday for the Black History Month Gospel Concert ...

Few ensembles embody the intertwining of artistry and political memory as fully as the Soweto Gospel Choir. Emerging in a country still reckoning with the psychological scars of apartheid, the group ...

Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...

Nasty C’s Gospel-Infused “Head Up 2.0” Hits 1 Million YouTube Views. South African rap heavyweight Nasty C continues to prove ...

In a small village called Bethlehem in the Northwestern region of Benin, an annual festival of culture and music has been bringing together 20 diverse ethnic groups, and diffusing economic, social and ...

The singing pianist’s songs have been recorded by Whitney Houston, Destiny’s Child, Boyz II Men, Yolanda Adams and more Special to the AFRO Sandy Spring, MD — Richard Smallwood, an eight-time Grammy® ...

Earlier this week, the cast and filmmakers of Disney’s new action-adventure ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ attended a special photocall at “Pride Rock” on Potters Fields with the iconic Tower Bridge in the ...

The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony of Virginia in 1619 after being forcefully removed from their natural environments left much behind, but their rhythms associated with ...